General Practitioner Salaries in Australia

A General Practitioner is a kind of doctor or considered as another term used for the doctors in most of the countries whose work is to treat different types of illnesses starting from mild to chronic illness. A General Practitioner also provides health knowledge and care to the patients. They are not considered as a specialized kind of doctor treating a special kind of illness. But they are trained to treat any kind of illness which is not deadly or not on that stage to cause death, unbothered by age and sex. A General Practitioner must be loyal to his duty and has to keep in mind the psychological, social along with the biological factors affecting the overall wellbeing. Because his patient may not only be suffering from some medical cause. Their duties also vary from country to country and region to region. Such as in some areas especially well developed countries, they are used just to treat normal kind of illness which is not life threatening at all and if the condition gets worse, patients are being guided to go to the specialist of their disease, while in under developed countries and areas, situation varies a bit, here they have taken their position in every field of illness, not only treating the normal kind of illness but from delivery of the babies to even low surgical procedures. Most common places where the General Practitioners are in work are; UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Singapore and New Zealand. Though they are working in each and every country, these are the countries who have given a clarified term to them as a General Practitioner.

As we are going to discuss, the average GP salary in Australia, so it is $191,716 a year. Though some of the General Practitioners also take hourly wages which can be calculated as $98.32. Though it also depends on your work and experience. As if you are a starter in practicing so you’ll start earning from $126,750 per year but with time and experience you can make it up to $253,500 per year. 

Well one of the benefits of being a General Practitioner in Australia is that they are on the third in offering highest average salaries to the General Practitioner per year as compared to other countries. But this Average salary also varies from city to city and what kind of work you are doing and what are your working hours and routine. 

If you want to know more about the General Practitioners in Australia, they are getting a comfortable lifestyle because Australia is an affordable country for your well being. The yearly salary which they make is not considered their salary at all but we just use it to clarify the term, but it’s what they earn by themselves which also varies according to their work.

Here we will present you with some of the main things which can affect the earnings of a General Practitioner;

1. In most of the countries they are not being employed as a worker and offered salary as a worker for the country.
2. Most often in Australia they worked as individual contractors handling their own business. In other words they earn for themselves.
3. Fee of the patients has been decided according to what kind of consultation they want to take and how many times they are consulting.
4. But the General Practitioner doesn’t have to take the whole fee but they take 60-70% from it.
5. They get their salary or earnings without the payment of tax from the earnings but have to pay the tax by themselves from what they earn.
6. They have to save money themselves for their retirement.